Hoffman was reportedly taught at an early age about William Morgan, whose disappearance in 1826 resulted in the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party.[1] He said that he learned from his maternal grandfather that elections in the United States were rigged by organized crime.[1] From this, Hoffman was said to have deduced that "[n]othing is as it seems to be," which in turn led to a "life long vocation, researching the subterranean workings of the occult cryptocracy's orchestration of American history".[1] He has worked on the projects of neo-NaziTom Metzger and of the Holocaust deniers Willis Carto, David Irving, Ernst Zündel, and Herman Otten.[4] He has served as Assistant Director of the Holocaust denial organization Institute for Historical Review.[5] He has also edited the work of alternative publisher Adam Parfrey.[6]

The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West's Most Sacred Relic[7]

They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America

The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians (with Moshe Lieberman)

Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

Judaism's Strange Gods

Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit

Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not

A Candidate for the Order (a novel)

Hoffman has also written the introductions for modern reprints, which he also published, of:

The Traditions of the Jews by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger

The Talmud Tested by Alexander McCaul, D.D.

Hoffman has written articles for the UK-based magazine Fortean Times,[8] as well as the Lutheran newspaper Christian News of New Haven, MO, which is published by Otten.[9] He has claimed to have worked as a reporter for the Albany, New York, bureau of the Associated Press. His principal research interests are historical revisionism, the alleged occult roots of Freemasonry, the command ideology of the Cryptocracy, Fortean phenomena, and the sacred texts of Orthodox Judaism.[10]

Hoffman is the author of Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not (2013). He argues that Jewish money-lenders have been scapegoated by gentile and Christian usurers in order to deflect attention from RenaissanceRoman Catholic and late Protestantusurybanking.

Hoffman denies that six million Jews were exterminated, in gas chambers in Auschwitz and other camps or by other means, during World War II. Hoffman has responded to the charge of Holocaust denial by stating: "Judaic people suffered severe and unconscionable persecution during World War II, including mass murder at the hands of the Nazis. I deplore these crimes and the criminal Nazi ideology which inspired and directed them."[11] Hoffman has written and lectured extensively on his allegation that the terms Holocaust and Holocaust denial are, according to him, representative of Orwellian Newspeak and religious mania and hysteria.[12]

Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare which outlines his conspiracy theory of a shadow government or "cryptocracy"[1] that gains power through manipulation of symbols and twilight language. Examples of such "psychodramas," in Hoffman's view, include Route 66 (which connects various centers of occult significance), and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in which Hoffman sees ritualistic elements.[1] The theory of masonic symbolism in the assassination of President Kennedy was first articulated by James Shelby Downard, with whom Hoffman co-authored King/Kill-33 which became the inspiration for a song by Marilyn Manson.[13]

More important is his understanding of the tenets of mind control, and the fallacy that exposure of the methods of a criminal undertaking represents an important step "toward overthrowing the power of the cryptocracy." The perpetrators typically let the truth emerge—The Revelation of the Method—strengthening their hold on the subject population.[15]

According to Mattias Gardell: "Antisemitism is prominent... in the worldview of Michael Hoffman II".[1] Hoffman described the bringing of the libel charges in the case of Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt as "another revisionist weed pushing itself up through hairline cracks in the Jewish concrete that covers our planet."[3] Hoffman believes that most Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the Biblical patriarchs, but from the Khazars. Hoffman claims that the Talmud is anti-semitic in its oppressive micro-management of Jewish lives. In writing intended for Jewish readers he stated, "Our mission is your salvation and freedom from the shackles of Talmudic evil and oppression. With regard to you, our attitude is one of pidyon shevuyim.[16]

Hoffman is also the author of They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold Story of Enslavement of Whites in Early America.[17] According to Derrick Jensen, Hoffman is "overtly racist" and "attempts to make the case that the enslavement of whites by commercial interests in Britain and the Americas was worse than the enslavement and genocide of Africans... perpetrated by those same interests."[17] Jensen said "Hoffman's analysis is seriously flawed" but that "his scholarship is impressive, and the story he tells is both interesting and horrifying".[17] In 2015, Irish historian Liam Hogan criticized Hoffman's scholarship in his essay "Irish Slaves - The Convenient Myth".[18]

^Overcoming Holocaust Newspeak (speech in Tampa, Florida, August, 1998, recorded on audio CD as listed in the Independent History and Research 2012 catalog p. 5); Revisionist History Newsletter no. 7 (Aug.-Sept. 1998); The Psychology and Epistemology of Holocaust Newspeak (http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p467_Hoffman.html)